PRESELECTED
COMMUN
France
2022
Runtime, min
8
Animation, Experimental,
Director:
Jonathan Rochier
Date & time:
The crowd can be seen as a sum of individualities but also as an autonomous acting power with its own logic and structure. Commun is an organic, social, and sensitive experience of a mass of pins, its behavior crosses the three modalities: community, communitarianism, communion.
ANIMA # 2
Portugal
2023
Runtime, min
2
Animation, Experimental, video art
Director:
Vasco Diogo
Date & time:
Anima # 2 is an experimental animation that shows 6 hand drawn human like figures in a constant row. Their movement, similar to a video dance, is created by the nature of the drawing, both by form and color. The apparent stillness of the figures confronts the viewer, as if the latter is being watched and questioned about its physical condition as an observer.
SMOKING KILLS.
Netherlands
Pages
88
Screenplay,
Writer:
Curtis Roy Worrall
Date & time:
A group of people do a research project to test a new cigarette before it comes on the market. The group of people dwindles down as many of the group die on the research project. The cigarettes tested are healthy, but there is a conspiracy to sabotage the research.
SATURDAY MORNING LIVE/ REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA EPISODE/ US
United States
2022
Runtime, min
18
Student Documentary
Director:
Dr. Lisa Spencer
Date & time:
Five days after receiving my PhD, I was invited to serve First Response in the Republic of Georgia. I had come up with the idea for a multicultural children’s television program. I was suddenly evacuated due to Covid so took this raw footage with Elene and quilted together a first episode for the show.
BEING IS VALUE
China
2022
Runtime, min
5
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student,
Director:
Meng Zhao
Date & time:
A young man feels existential boredom because of the real-life constraints of academics, gender temperament, and the repetitive nature of life, which lead to emptiness and lack of self-identity.
OUTSIDE IN, LIFE OF A FIGURE MODEL
United States
2023
Runtime, min
21
Documentary,
Director:
Esther (Etti) Inbal
Date & time:
Bobbie Golden is a 75-year-old figure model with 50 years of experience. “Outside In” explores her journey as a revered muse, showcasing her dedication to evocative posing and the vast collection of artworks that immortalize her. Interviews with artists highlight Bobbie’s impact on their creative journeys. Through a visual journey of paintings, sculptures, and sketches, viewers witness the diverse interpretations of her essence and the enduring power of art.
SEDUCTIVE DEVOTION
United States
2023
Runtime, min
7
Experimental, Short, Other, Experimental, Romance, Short
Director:
Destin Gerek
Date & time:
In a society where narratives of male perpetrators and harm inflicted upon women prevail, "Seductive Devotion" emerges as a powerful experimental short film presenting an inspiring alternative.
DISCONNECT
Germany
Runtime, min
7
Experimental, Short,
Director:
Teymour Tehrani
Date & time:
Here HE (27) is. A disappointment! As he observes himself in the gloomy light of his living room mirror, the young man starts to hear intensifying voices from his past. He has failed everyone – especially himself.
WILDFIRES
United States
2023
Runtime, min
2
Animation, Experimental,
Director:
Peter Hriso
Date & time:
My work focuses solely on sharing my discoveries during my investigations. While I may start with a rough idea or plan, the work guides me toward solutions and helps me sort through any puzzles. Technology plays a crucial role in this process. There are no ulterior motives or hidden messages in my work.
LEARNING TO DANCE
United States
2023
Runtime, min
23
Documentary, Experimental, Short,
Director:
Cat Ashworth
Date & time:
Learning to Dance explores the topic of aging and the challenges we will all face if we are lucky enough to live a long life. Filmmaker Cat Ashworth explores the loss of identity as she transitions to a new period of life.
LOVE, INSTANTLY!
New Zealand
2021
Runtime, min
24
Experimental, Short, Other,
Director:
Neža Jamnikar
Date & time:
Love, instantly! is a kitsch work by Neža Jamnikar. It is an experimental movement film that explores the phenomenon of kitsch – the aesthetics, as well as its complex application to, and an adaptation by socio-political and religious spheres. Cheap objects on display imitation, pretence, and phony feelings nostalgia, sentiment, and safety routines, clichés, and hierarchy of taste fantasies, nightmares, and archetypes creating political kitsch God’s country, class division, and cultural elite It is a marching propaganda. A Kinkade's Christmas Cottage.
ANA MENDIETA IF
United States
2023
Runtime, min
4
Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media,
Director:
Jaewook Lee
Date & time:
"Ana Mendieta if" (2023) is a riveting cinematic homage to the influential Cuban-American artist, Ana Mendieta. This film masterfully traces the trajectory of her pioneering work in performance art, especially her profound connection with nature.
ŌTA SHŌGO'S THE WATER STATION
United Arab Emirates
2022
Runtime, min
87
Experimental, Feature, Drama, Silent Film
Director:
Abhishek Majumdar
Date & time:
‘The Water Station’ is a film adaptation by playwright, director, and NYU Abu Dhabi professor Abhishek Majumdar of a play by Japanese playwright Ōta Shōgo, written in 1981. It is about our experience of the world and how it is shaped by what we have to leave behind, who we can leave with, and what happens when we meet others in our journeys.
A CHANT FOR THE BEES
Canada
2022
Runtime, min
8
Experimental, Short, Art
Director:
Bill Burns
Date & time:
A Chant for the Bees is a short film about my daily life. It contains a series of ordinary events as well as a visit to the amusement park. Original music is in the form of a Georgian Chant of the names of the 100 largest companies in the world.
THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON
Spain
2023
Runtime, min
2
Experimental, Art, Fantasy, Horror, Identity, Science Fiction
Director:
Manuel Fernández Ferro
Date & time:
The Lovers of Avignon is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.
THE TRAIN OF MEMORIES
Taiwan
2023
Runtime, min
5
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, experimental, fantastic, documentary
Director:
Chen Chih Ming
Date & time:
One day, when I opened the moisture-proof box which had been sealed for a long time. I found that it was loaded with film and picture that I had printed by myself in the past. I scanned and captured them one by one with a scanner, and edited them together. When I play it fast, the film looks like the scenery that outside the window of the train flashed across by my eyes. The train of thought which in my mind is to pass through the past that full of struggles and depressive memorise when I seeking self-identification. Through the images of broken memory, I constantly recombine them and collect the sounds of daily life. Finally it let me can released my mind from the bitter days to the better days, and lives brilliant that like a kaleidoscope every moment in my life.
ANIMA # 1
Portugal
2022
Runtime, min
3
Animation, Experimental,
Director:
Vasco Diogo
Date & time:
This experimental and abstract animation reflects upon the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, following the structure of an hip-hop song and mixing plenty of digital hand-painted techniques. The style alternates between continuity and frame collision.
ALOW
Germany
2022
Runtime, min
28
Experimental, Short, Other,
Director:
Tanja Bombach
Date & time:
A hallucinatory, underground and dream-like night walk where three different escapist scenarios are taking place. Reflections on a state of mind of pervasive anxiety, loss of control and trepidation luring under the surface translated through movement, disguise and surroundings.
NĖÆDRA
United Kingdom
2023
Runtime, min
7
Short, sci-fi, experimental, fashion, fantasy
Director:
Shelby Eames
Date & time:
When an alien soul from destroyed planet Merlershkö reincarnates into a human body, she finally remembers her past lives after a 2,000 year amnesic spell cast by her mother protected her from her memories.
FIND A STYLE IN ANKANG CITY
China
2022
Runtime, min
240
Documentary, Experimental, city, artist, culture, youth
Director:
Zhang Ge
Date & time:
I got on the train to visit my poet friend,I thought it was a good chance to try the one person shot.So me and my cam spent train journey together, and joined his part of working day in Ankang city. After graduating he went back home, a city near Hanjiang River, and tried to find his own style in there.
ALICE IN THE REAL WORLD
Bulgaria
2023
Runtime, min
30
Experimental, Short,
Director:
Ivan Abadjiev
Date & time:
Alice is a young girl who is going through a crisis in her personal life. Trying to overcome her problems, Alice goes through various difficulties. Challenged to find a way to herself, she is confronted with a reality she did not know or suspect existed.